I feel compelled to post a pointer to any article I find by Vandana Shiva. She is a pissed off old campaigner for sensible non-corporate food on all levels. She also tirelessly calls out the powerful on their greed incompetence and arrogance when it comes to making decisions that destroy access to food for millions of people. I don’t understand how she maintains such a positive attitude as she is frequently writing about some of the most horrible things. In this article she is pointing out yet again the real reasons behind the “reforms” in India and what they really mean to millions of the poorest hungriest people on the planet.
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This author has been hammering on Monsanto consistently. She does a
good job of pointing at sources and staying factual. It is difficult
not to sound like like an hysterical conspiracy theorist when writing
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This is why you never trust the pigs. There’s no way of knowing all
of the unintended consequences of their high-sounding bullshit
beforehand but it is a certainty that there will be many and their
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A privatised corporate state must rapidly become a police state.
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An economics of deregulation of commerce of privatisation and
commodification of seeds and food land and water women and children
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1405 words by attila written on 2012–11–27, last edit: 2012–11–28, tags: agro, rant, system

This is not our planet. It is A planet and as far as we are
concerned it is THE planet but it is not OUR planet. It is a planet
that many other life-forms are unfortunate enough to share with us
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